Monday, December 14, 2015

I hate to be a 'downer' on the climate change agreement. With lots of world-wide attention, there was a real chance to actually make history and to at ameliorate possible climate change pace and impacts. But, the agreements from the summit are voluntary; the deadlines are way to long, and the money needed to address the issue is not mandatory. The words are nice in the agreement but they are straw men, hollow reeds.

The agreement makes no commitment to abandon fossil fuels. The time period for changes makes not sense. Do we have 30-50 years to meet targets, all of which are not mandated. If there is one thing that is certain, models underestimate change. Year after year since the first IPCC report, NEW factors have emerged that show an ever hastening climate disaster.

The summit and all of the nice talk appears to be more of a ruse to placate the masses and to lull them into thinking all will be okay---that it's all under control. It's not.

"But those are targets, not requirements. And the national action
plans brandished by all but a few of the 195 nations voting for the
Paris accord add up, in the first round of estimates, to fall very short
of the target. Indeed, temperatures would rise between 2.7 and 3.5
degrees Celsius under the actual national plans, between five and more
than six degrees Fahrenheit. That result would be absolutely disastrous.President Barack Obama hailed the Paris summit accord as grandly
historic. But former NASA scientist James Hansen, a founding father of
climate change awareness, declared the summit "a fraud," an event of "no action, just promises."
So
the agreement, at the insistence of the Obama administration, includes a
schedule of regular reviews, every five years, of national action
plans, essentially pushing the nations to resubmit new and better plans
based upon technological advances and increased political will.
And the Paris accord does not call for an actual phase-out of widespread fossil fuel use.
Instead
of "greenhouse gas emissions neutrality" in the draft, which some
interpreted to mean an end to emissions, the phrase "global peaking of
greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible" was substituted. This
change was made, not surprisingly, at the urgent insistence of Saudi
Arabia and some other members of OPEC. The Saudi line is to keep burning
oil and make up for it with carbon sinks such as new forest growth and
techno-fixes down the line. Meanwhile, they are going to keep on pumping
and selling."

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"Credibility alone must determine whether
propaganda output should be true or false."

"Propaganda must label events and people
with distinctive phrases or slogans. "

"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement
of aggression by specifying the targets for
hatred. "

"Black rather than white propaganda may
be employed when the latter is less credible
or produces undesirable effects. "

"To be perceived, propaganda must evoke
the interest of an audience and must be transmitted
through an attention-getting communications
medium. "

"Propaganda to the home front must create
an optimum anxiety level"

There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important
for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth
is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is
the greatest enemy of the State.”

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a
psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in
fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they
clothe ideas and disguise.”

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless
one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine
itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average
minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be
lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful,
aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of
a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I
speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak
in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That
is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement
of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad
masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It
is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.”

There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.

There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.

There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.

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